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Letter "J" » John Calvin Quotes
«Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men»
«For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
mighty, resists, rise up, strives
«All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Blessings
| Keywords:
benefit, blessings, deposited, depositing, deposits, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, neighbors
«Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
administered, administering, administers, Church of, Church of God, doubted, institution, preached, sacraments, the sacrament, wherever, Word of God
«Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
craftsman, his mother, idols, One of Us, womb
«No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
entering, enter upon, excluded, gate, unbelief
«Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?»
«I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
bowel, bowels, defect, looseness, looseness of the bowels
«Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
ass, incapable, musical, musicals, musical harmony, mysteries, shrewdness
«Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| Keywords:
accomplishments, cease, despair, forward, go forward, incessantly, Lord's table, smallness, the LORD, utmost
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